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Page TVtf. THE REGISTER-GUARD, "EUGENE, OREGON angary 13. 1aT ti MATH FOR QUEEN QUOTH OLD KNIGHTS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE I) pointed out it's more fun than Hip ley). Knight II. R. Ooold, who rum the Eugene city schools In his ssre time, did not Uwbato the issue of mathe matics in the high schools but he did remark quoting frm Mr. DeCou's own remarks that if it took mankind 1,000 years to Jcnrn to more from one side of the decimal point to the other, the schools mteht I pardonpd for full ins occasionally to cover the whole field of mathematics in a 12-year course of study for children. History Would Help ' This of course brought up the tick lish subject of the way in which math ematics have been taught, and it was generally agreed that there should be more effort to show its colorful his tory, as Mr. DeCou had done and to relate it to the everyday life of human beings, ; "They had to give me two exami nations to get me out of high school," confessed Warren D. Smith, geog raphy and geology. Mathematics, the Queen, is no dull or selfish mistress, as Mr. DeCou de scribes her. He took the Knights back to Biblical times, and to ancient Egypt, Greece, Home, India to show how mathematics were developed out of human necessity. To carry on trade and the necessary business of living people had to have ways of counting and they became tired of using their fingers and toes for the purpose hence mathematical systems. The use of the groupings of five and ten in counting systems Is traceable directly to toes and fingers. The use of twenties (four score and ten, for instance) goes back to twenty as the symbol of all the digits of the body. Groupings by twelves are a bet ter and more flexible system but they did not arise till later. , Mathematics have been both a bus iness and a game, for centuries, Mr. DeCou explained. They have been the workaday tools of common people and the diversion of arlttocrats, temporal and intellectual. They have enablefl us to know the stars above us, to steer ships across the seas, survey accurately the lands we till, to build the houses we live in, to erect great monuments, machines. They are the basis of all music, sculpture. Even poems fall into mathematical rhythms. Mr. DeCou exhibited a Chinese abacus or counting board which Knight-John Bovard found some years back In an abandoned gold mine in Nevada. More than half the people of the world still use these devices with great skill and speed and they arc not fundamentally different from our modern adding ma chines. "Does the adding machine or calcu lator do away with the need for first band knowledge of mathematics " aomebody inquired. "Abaolutely not," said Mr. DeCou, because unless the operator has some basic understanding of mathematics the use of these figures can lead to ntter errors. People who use statis tics, and we sre using them more and more every day, must undertsand them or the rclntions will be all wrong." Pythsgorns. the Greek Philolaus, his pupil, Eratosthenes and his mathemat ical "sieve," the incomparable Eu Hid, Almes the Egyptian who estab lished aitrveyine. Thales, Plato, Arch imedes whose rkill nearly defeated the Roman legions, and founded the sci ence of physics; lllppnrchua, the as tronomer who laid the groundwork of trigonometry Iloetbius, forgotten sa vants of Aruliin and India and China were paraded by Mr. DeCou in the long line leading down to Gnuss, Des cartes, Newton, Quetelet and the mod erns. The Interested Knights forgot to ask about Einstein and relativity. "The Queen is NOT dead; long live the Queen" would summarise Mr. De Cou's paper. Hhe is not cruel Rnd Inhuman, but ahe does dcniRnd absolute fidelity. Kducnti'Minlly. It was conceded, that raises some prohl-ms. I'r. M, I". Harris, president, wss In the chair. At the February meeting, Hermnn Kelirli, secretary of the Lea gue of Oregon Cities, will be welcomed as a new member. BROKER COMMITS SUICIDE PORTLAND. Jan. 13. Two self-inflicted bultct wounds ended the life of Frank S. Clltirrt, .VI, prominent Portland timber broker, deputy cor oner G. W. Snook sjiid today. Gil bert's wife found the body In the bed room of their home yesterday. 8he said her hnlunil had been Buffering from an acute sinus ailment. The first prnctieal reaper wss built by Cyrus llnll Mrl'ormick in 1S31, in an old Ins cabin hlncksmiih shop on his fnthers farm near Steele'a Tavern. Yn. BREVITIES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE I) dents. The university received its charter Jan. 10, 1854. PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 13. UP) A stranger didn't walk off with John Isakson'a $2103 in postal cer tificates after all. Isakson, a logger, who thought the securities were taken by a man with whom he was drinkiug beer, received them back Intact as soon as police located him. The ?-l'J3 was found by Jess Vogle while he was aupervislng the remodeling of his res taurant. A bank book registered to Isakson was with the certificates. BEND. Ore, Jan. IX- ?) The unwelcome visitor who rifled the safe in the Deschutes county courthouse several months ago would be given a job were be available now no one knows the combination for two new strong-boxes, purchased at Klamath Falls, which bare been installed in the clerk's and treasurer's offices. BEND, Ore.. Jan. 13. OP) Jsck Sampsel wanted either a job or a jail sentence, he told circuit court here, and for that reason, he smashed a typewriter in the relief office. He won the jail sentence two months on his plea of guilty to willful destruction of property, PORTLAND, Jan. 13. W) A plea of not guilty by Anna Frans Werame brought an order from federal court for her trial January 23 on a charge of offering a $100 bribe to Manley Strayer, deputy United States attor ney, in connection with proceedings last fall upon a judgment obtained against her husband. TILLAMOOK, Jan. 13. P The city of Tillamook reduced ita fire loss from $3600 in 1033 to $800 for 1031, the annual report showed today. Prop erty owners collected $235 in fire in surance from total risks of $313. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. (P Many a wife mnkea her husband eat Itctuce for health, but throws the vitamina away before 8erving his salad. The outer leaves, often trimmed off, are more than 30 timea as rich in vititmln A as the inside leaves, the bureau of home eeonqmics said today. DEGENERATE FIEND 0- n "- -, Vs t Or,..., a. QPEAKING at a Joint session of House and Senate, President Roosevelt is shown on the rostrum of the House chamber as he delivered his annual message to Congress, which Included a summary of the record of his administration. Back of the president are seated Vice President John N. Garner and Speaker W. B. Bankhead. Directly In front of the dais are the cabinet members, with senators occupying the first three rows of seats in the packed chamber. Outstanding in the address was the rebuke to courts for narrow interpretations of fundamental laws and the call for an Immediate (CONTINUED FROM PAQE I) film of sandy losm on part of the mutilated body. Thia, with other evi dence. Indicated that possibly Charles waa firat burled in a shallow grave, later exhumed, and dumped In the snow just oft a lonely country road near Everett, Wash, This theory was aupported by indi cation that the body started to decom pose, 4bat this process was halted, and had started again just before the corpse was discovered. It was ex plained that if first buried in the ground, the body would begin to rot; that when exhumed and exposed to freezing nir decomposition would stop temporarily. Keen Blade Used The wound in Charles back was made with a keen blade and pierced the flesh about four inches. Charles had been dead from four to aix days when found. From laboratory technique the fol lowing reconstruction was made of the crime : The abductor sped to some remote hideaway with Charles. This, place was on the bank of, or near a river or lake. . While the kidnaper negotiated with desperate Dr. William Whitlock Matt son, Chnrles wna bound about the wrists, ankles, and part of the time about the ueck with a medium-sized rope, either n clothes line or some thing similar. Thus bound, Charles wss kept in nil earthen cellnr, or in a fluoric shack. When unbound the youngster was compelled to submit to the ravages of a pervert. Little more than a week after his capture Charles apparently attempted to flee. Ho had been fed less than three or four hours before. He was suffering from badly inflamed lungs. His abductor chnsed and caught the squirming child. The youngster kicked and scratched the kidnaper. Enraged, and as they grovelled on earth, the fiend plunged n knife in Chnrles' back. The blow did not kill. It missed heart and lungs. The killer withdrew his blade and as the blood spurted from the agonized youngster his nbductor grasper a crnde weapon either a carpenter's hammer, or a hatchet with a square head and smashed in the rear of his little captive's head. Frightened by his own brutality, the killed fled and stayed away long enough to allow blood from the wounds to coagulate. Child Thought Burled The slayer returned and apparently buried Charles beneath sandy loam. Meanwhile he continued to try to ransom his hostage, now dead. Despairing of collecting the $2S,000. the snatch-slayer for some wnrped reason returned to the grave, dug up the mutinied body and carried it to the spot where it was found. Spurred by $11,0110 in rewards and growing public indignation, posses, official and unofficial, searched the Washington wilds for clues to the killer. Angry men gathered In groups last "Lynching Is too good for this j,; nn,i talked openly of mob action fiend," said Co. (ins. B. Appelmnn, I ,( tuc kidnaper is captured. G-men friend of Dr. Mnttson. "He should be j ,VPre panning precautions in the event burned at the stake." they make an arrest. Suspects will Burial of the kidnaped youth was ; be taken to Seattle or Portland hend scheduled for today. A private funeral j quarters for safekeeping, it was under held, 'stood. EUffiHS GIVE SUGGESTIONS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE I) 8. M. Calkins, ''torn,,... reading all the-lurid details and seeing the pictures that even the most con servative newspapers publish become even more unbalanced. One great ser vice newspapers could do in helping to solve the problem is to pay less attention to the details of such crimes. When they see so much attention given their crimes they become ob sessed with the idea of being public heroes. Another possibility that might help is to make payment of ransom a crime, too." Ira Williams, roofer and farmer "Put everybody back to work and you can go a long way toward eli minating kidnaping through the sim ple practice of keeping people s mind and time occupied.' N. K. Hichens. credit manager "I vas born in England that's enough. They don't dicker around there and hnve long stretched out cases. I think, too, some of the old Puritan theories of s little more personal punishment might work." " ' H. B. Freeland, print shop pro prietor "Stricter law enforcement could help. The trouble is however, that American citizens as a whole do not do their part in enforcing laws there's the old gag, you know, of get ting 'your own ticket fixed, etc'." W. P. Walter, Y. M. C. A. executive "I believe that the Important thing in curbing such crimes is to provide adequate care for the criminally in clined people. Until' we realize we must care for these people perman eutly and not " turn them loose on society, we do not stand a chance of eliminating such crimes.! ' Crosby Owens, insurance man. "Lynching is too good for anyone like these kidnapers. We ought to hnve a Devil's Island, deport them all there and leave them there!" tire inceutive for kij'J ransom. The dfvma. I should immediate, uktrt c.ise and announce now IT som is to be paid; p" miners and the ... ."41 instantly." Ralph i Kruse, hotel major thing to comd,',, L is how to control c;;. ,. keep them controls business to be turned ifty." Cnl Bryan, city record,, opinion It is the breakdZ"1 court system, the proUwJ tory action thnt -, Place that is responsiufc.' deal of our kidnnnin. W W E. Nukbanm, firi cbW . lice catch the kidnsn... .T, there are so manv U.a t that they can escape bjo,J? sentence that . . '" float J proper respect for the U. 1 n. . uooiu, school ,UWti,J One of the nio or "l the kidnaper is th. .... ?N me rantou J is a sorrv snprl-n.T. ,. 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